wvfarrier
Active Member
So, i had no interest in doing the buries that G2 Outdoors showed in his video, but i want to use Amsteel for my bridge without knots. I contacted a fella on ebay who sells dogbones, whoopie slings and such things made from Amsteel. He made me 2 bridges from Amsteel 1/4". This is the message he sent me:
"You have probably seen the YouTube video by G2 Outdoors about Tree Saddle Bridge Basics; at least that's what I watched, among watching, and reading from different sources on the web, to have a better understanding of what you needed for your tree saddle. In the video he used 8" buries behind the locked brummels, and he stated that they worked well, as I'm sure they did. He also did not taper the ends before burying them, which will also work for this application. My guess would be that the locked brummels by themselves will hold over a ton of weight when using the 1/4" AmSteel to construct them.
At any rate, I've increased the buries to 10" each, and I've properly tapered the ends. The taper you can feel as the buries transitions to the short midsection single strand of dog bone style bridge."
seller: cak5005
Now before you all have a meltdown about my safety, i fully intend to test these thoroughly at ground level before betting my life on them. I may use the in combo with my current bridge a couple times before going with just them. Anyway, just sharing an option for ya'll
"You have probably seen the YouTube video by G2 Outdoors about Tree Saddle Bridge Basics; at least that's what I watched, among watching, and reading from different sources on the web, to have a better understanding of what you needed for your tree saddle. In the video he used 8" buries behind the locked brummels, and he stated that they worked well, as I'm sure they did. He also did not taper the ends before burying them, which will also work for this application. My guess would be that the locked brummels by themselves will hold over a ton of weight when using the 1/4" AmSteel to construct them.
At any rate, I've increased the buries to 10" each, and I've properly tapered the ends. The taper you can feel as the buries transitions to the short midsection single strand of dog bone style bridge."
seller: cak5005
Now before you all have a meltdown about my safety, i fully intend to test these thoroughly at ground level before betting my life on them. I may use the in combo with my current bridge a couple times before going with just them. Anyway, just sharing an option for ya'll